The Haunting of Hill House’s success on Netflix proves that, like the Shirley Jackson book, many other horror classic novels ...

Horror books are designed to scare you silly, and these literary horror novels are also well-crafted reads — we suggest you read them with the lights on Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the ...

Halloween is the perfect time to tuck into a good scary book. And who knows scary tomes better than a horror author? From Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft back in the day to R.L. Stine and the king ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It’s safe to say that Netflix gained a die-hard group of followers after it released Castlevania.

Instead of watching horror movies this Halloween, why not curl up with the real masters of terror and read the original books? Who doesn’t love to ride a horror ...

My friend is missing. When he disappeared, he'd been working on a magazine about the paranormal—his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he'd resorted to digging through back issues and ...

Our columnist reviews books with lessons about perseverance, an undead girl and bizarre food. By Gabino Iglesias Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, literary critic and professor, and the author of ...

If you’re “from the 1900s,” as those cruel Zoomers might say, then you are very familiar with R.L. Stine, who created the legendary Goosebumps series of horror novels aimed at younger readers. Before ...

When Richard Chizmar was 10 years old, he wrote a story about a snowman who couldn’t melt. The thermometer climbed, and the sun blazed, but the snowman remained standing, watching his once hard-packed ...

You may have stocked up on treats, inflated the giant skeleton in your front yard, and dusted off your old “Monster Mash” seven-inch, but if you’re a book lover, your Halloween planning isn’t complete ...

An advanced copy of Scream with Me! Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism by Eleanor Johnson found me in the simmering heat of summer 2025, just in time for Independence Day. I tore into the ...